Happy Pi Day!
Pumpkin for Hubby:
Raspberry for Me:
…And a really fun breakfast the next day for the Boys:
Today is…Pi Day 3.14 2011
The gospel lesson talked about people who were invited to a wedding feast, but didn’t want to go. I likened this to having Church to go to, but saying you are sick or tired (when you are not really). The lesson suggested asking the children about invitations they had received, and how they felt about the invites. Knowing my son has not received a lot of invitations (he is only 4, after all), I quickly wrote one up for him on an index card, asking him to come to a Pi party that night.
He was elated!!!!
And he insisted on bringing the invitation to the Gym so he could invite his friends to the party.
However, he came down with a horrid ear-ache while we were at the gym. So we cancelled the friends coming over.
He was definitely sadder about not having his friends over then he was about a dreadfully painful ear:
I gave him some Tylenol, but we played it fairly low-key for the day.
The boys spent time playing with puzzles:
And helped me make pies by tasting the ingredients:
And mixing and rolling crusts (and much asking to “taste a yiddo budda” [taste a little butter—Ettin LOVES butter]):
During nap time Giant played with some word mix-up cards…
…painted over some secret pictures I’d drawn for him in white crayon…
…and helped me sort my seeds (by date to start inside or date to plant outside):
An essential skill for any student of mine.
Then we talked about Pi day and what Pi was:
And finished with some yummy, yummy pies!
robots and a mommy
I got to play robots with my boy:
Thanks for letting us build a robot, daddy!
Note: awesome activity for a whole heap of mathematical concepts.
I may just start building robots for math time instead of counting beans.
What is the world coming to?!
Today is…Friday Mar 11
Our day started with a healthy and nutritious sampling of chips, cakes, and candy:
(note to self: Next time, clean up left-over party food before the children wake up hungry in the morning!)
We were running a little behind, which Giant kept reminding me of as he followed me around with his toy clock (which he adjusts to match the clock on our living room wall):
After gym, we brought some friends over to play. And since I hadn’t taught a gospel lesson before we left for gym, I got the boys a snack (carrot sticks and hummus to counter-balance their breakfast) and talked to them about righteous obedience. We determined that if someone said he would clean his room, but didn’t, that that would be more disobedient than someone who said they wouldn’t clean their room and later repented and did do the work. Giant assured me that he always says he’ll clean his room.
The boys mostly just played. One point I found interesting was when they were writing names on chalkboards. Giant was comparing his name with his friend’s name. I pointed out that if he used all the letters in his name, not just the sounds, that he would have even more letters which matched his friend’s letters.
Later, without prompting from me, he wrote his full name:
Then the boys did some painting. I was feeling brave.
Look Sunshine!!!
Ahem.
I mean, look at those adorable boys. In the glorious, warm, beautiful, radiant, bright sun. Lovely.
After friends had gone home and little ones were napping, Giant and I cut out hand flowers from their painting artwork:
To sprout under our tree.
To explain what happened next you must understand that I had had an unusually late night last night.
And both my little ones were asleep.
And my oldest kept asking me if I was tired.
And if I wanted to snuggle.
And wasn’t I tired?
And could I please sleep on the couch next to him?
And there were sunbeams on the couch.
So I spent the afternoon here:
Pure bliss.